On Sunday, March 27, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Laszlo Nagy wrote: I'd like to distribute a pure Python package named "foo". By default it > will be placed in lib/site-packages/foo. What if I want to add > utilities? Command line or GUI programs that are not full featured > applications, but they can be handy for some tasks that are related to > the package. Here is what I see: > > * Python places them under "tools" in the Python installation dir (under > windows). I'm not sure about Unix. > > Other variants: > > * site-packages/foo/scripts (example: win32) > * site-packages/foo/util (example: vtk) > * directory site-packages/foo/tools (example: numpy) None of the above are standard practices, as far as I know. > Is there a PEP number / standard way for this? No PEP, but - yes - there is a conventional, if not standard, way to do this. It's called "entry points" (part of setuptools or Distribute).
Documentation: http://packages.python.org/distribute/setuptools.html#automatic-script-creation Example: https://github.com/ActiveState/pythonselect/blob/master/setup.py#L49 Users of your package will need to have Distribute installed, which is available in ActivePython (all platforms), OSX and almost all of the Linux distributions. -srid -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
